PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Camelia Tepelus, Executive Director of Morris Park Business Improvement District (BID)
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Camelia Tepelus, Executive Director of Morris Park BID, expressed support for DSNY's containerization efforts while highlighting challenges faced by smaller BIDs in implementing the proposed changes. She emphasized the need for clear written guidelines from DSNY to help BIDs plan and budget effectively.
- Described Morris Park BID's current operations and budget constraints
- Praised Commissioner Tisch's work but noted lack of written documentation on proposed changes
- Shared an experiment conducted by Morris Park BID in anticipation of the legislation
Camelia Tepelus
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Good afternoon.
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My name is Camilla Tepellos.
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I'm the executive director of the Morris Park Business Improvement District in the Bronx.
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A bid with 390,000, dollars in assessment, one full time staff member, paying 2 full time supplementary sanitation staff from our vendor Street Plus that that, testified earlier that cost $153,000 a year to clean up sidewalks along 21 blocks of commercial corridor on Morris Park Avenue in the Bronx.
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And, no, our work is not exactly the same like the work of our individual members because cleaning up 4 corn corners on 21 blocks is not the same like a single business putting their trash in a single, trash can.
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I'm an admirer of commissioner Tisch's, work, which I consider to be transformative for the city and arguably may become the most substantive impact of the Adam's administration on the city.
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I share with miss Tisch being on the list of New York City and state above and beyond innovators 2023, issue on exactly the same, page.
3:03:49
I thank the 2 courtiers of this hearing for the very pertinent questions related to the beads and the public trash that we collect to make our neighborhoods, beautiful.
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It was stated that there were a lot of misunderstanding in terms of, the quote, unquote beads trash.
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And, of course, there are because we have been asking DSNY for something in writing, the proposal of this of this proposed changes for months.
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The fact that DSNY does not want to provide us with anything in writing, no document whatsoever, I mean, make gives us make leaves us in a place impossible to plan to consider in our budget to to approve by our board of whatever investment is necessary.
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We are looking forward to work with DSNY.
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We are supporters in in in this project, and we want our streets to be free from reds.
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But just to share with you an example of an experiment and of an experiment that Morris Park did, did.
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Anticipating this legislation, we instructed our workers to put all, trash that is now in bags,
Shaun Abreu
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bags of trash cans,
Camelia Tepelus
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to put it in the trash cans.
Shaun Abreu
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Thank you.
